[clug] Microsoft Financials and Legal Costs.

[Stephen Jenkin]

This was doing the rounds today.

Interesting in light of Rusty's speculations last night that MS$$ were
'clearing the decks' (legally), perhaps for some great leap forward.

Hope this is interesting to you all.
[Q: What would _you_ do with 18 months revenue sitting in the
bank? $56Bn!]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:01:41 +1000
From: Con Zymaris <conz at cyber.com.au>
To: Open Source Industry Australia <osia-discuss at lists.osia.net.au>
Subject: [Osia-discuss] Interesting news from Reuters


Reuters reports that Microsoft's legal bills are now greater than its revenue
gains and investments combined:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3562268&thesection=business&thesubsection=technology&thesecondsubsection=information


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